Monday, July 16, 2012

Brisbane City Census Data

For the past few weeks, I have been looking at the 2011 census data.  It is very useful for property investors.  In my view, the best place to search is via an address search, and the results are then available in layers, from a few blocks, to suburb, post code area, and so on.  You can search here.

For Brisbane City downtown area, in 2011, here is some interesting data (full results here):



  • population - 7,888 people
  • median age - 29
  • Most people are in the 25 to 29 age group (22% of the population)
  • 1,526 families
  • 32% married
  • 37% have University qualifications (compared with 13.5% for Qld or 14.35 for Australia as a whole).
  • 4,516 dwellings in total (of which, 98.7% are apartments)
  • Average of 2 people per household
  • 50.9% of dwellings had 2 bedrooms
  • Median weekly household income - $1,828
  • 54.5% of dwellings are rented
  • Median rent - $530 per week
  • 0.8 cars per dwelling
  • Ancestry: "The most common ancestries in Brisbane City (State Suburbs) were English 18.0%, Australian 11.3%, Chinese 9.8%, Irish 7.0% and Korean 5.8%."
  • Country of birth: "In Brisbane City (State Suburbs), 33.3% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were Korea, Republic of (South) 6.6%, England 4.4%, China (excludes SARs and Taiwan) 3.9%, Taiwan 3.3% and New Zealand 2.5%."
  • 63.5% had both parents born outside of Australia


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